pacificmint

> While the first season of the fantasy series, [...] did big business for Netflix [...] season two struggled to break through in a major way [...]

Maybe that is because after two years, I've all but forgotten why I was excited about a show in the first place.

It used to be on network TV that a season ended in May and the next started in September. I can wait four month for the next season.

Now seasons are as short as 10 episodes, and then we wait for two or three years for the next season. It's like the opposite of striking the iron while it's hot. They delay a season so long that any hype and excitement fizzles out before the next installment arrives.

I realize making the financial math work for productions like this isn't easy, but this feels like they are damaging the brands that they are trying to create.

> I'm from Australia. You say "Global South" like it's some kind of substitute for "poor countries".

“Global South” is the currently used term for what was previously called “Developing Countries” and “Third World Countries” before that.

The global south is not equal to the geographical south, otherwise they could’ve just said the southern hemisphere.

According to Wikipedia[1], Australia is considered part of the “Global North”. It’s an economic label more than a geographic one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South

I believe it’s standard practice to publish tapes of the radio transmissions, but not from the cockpit voice recorders. They do publish a transcript though, if it is relevant.

If some one wants to read a lot more details an out this incident, there is book about it. It’s been a decade or two since I read it, but I remember it being well written.

‘The Day the Phones Stopped Ringing’ by Leonard Lee

Research and Experimentation

Here is an article [1] and corresponding HN discussion [2] that adds some insight to that question.

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/apple-job-cuts-tide/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34542013

> modify the fundamental nature of the House of Representatives such that a representative's voting power is proportional to the share of the vote they got.

Germany does that. They have districts, which get to send the winner in each district to parliament. But these only account for a part of the total seats available.

The others are filled up from a party list in such a way that the proportions are equal to the proportions of the votes.

That way you get the best of both worlds, you have representatives that have a connection to each district, but you still have the distribution in parliament that represent the actual distribution of the votes.

Hah, I had never realized that, but after some digging it turns out you are absolutely right. In fact, ‘premise’ and ‘premises’ have actually very different meanings.

This article summarizes it nicely. [1]

[1] https://www.govloop.com/on-premise-vs-on-premises-the-debate...

At that point, you pretty much have to write it in Java. :)

> That’s something like 1200 miles (2000km)

On the other hand, a high speed train can do 200 mph (320 km/h) in actual operation. That would be a six hour train ride. A plane is faster, but once you add all the airport overhead, the train might actually be competitive.

> (insert verb for what a traitor does)

You mean Treason?

Could people ride the Cargo Dragon down in an emergency?

One more option, if Russia couldn’t get an extra Soyuz up there in time to pick them up, would be to send an extra Dragon up empty to pick up the extras.

Looks like the Adblue trademark is registered to the “ Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V. (VDA)” which is a German non profit automobile industry association.

The long Covid and cancer numbers are from The NY Times podcast [1].

The traffic injuries and fatalities are from Wikipedia [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/podcasts/the-daily/long-c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

The best estimate I found was from May of this year. At the time they estimated somewhere between 7.7 and 23 million cases of long Covid in the US.

Compare that with 1.6 million people getting a cancer diagnosis every year, about 40 thousand traffic fatalities and 2.2 million injured in traffic accidents.

Time to put a safety glovebox crowbar in your center console.

AirTags use CR2032 batteries which are, in fact, lithium batteries.

They are lithium primary cells though, not lithium ion cells, which are usually what is banned.

Definitely worth watching the video. Even though the results not surprising, it is still amazing to see how well the interior space around the 2009 driver stays intact. And how much the space around the 1959 drive does not.

From the article:

> According to safety engineers at the scene, the driver of the 2009 Chevrolet Malibu would likely have suffered slight knee injury. The driver of the 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air would have died instantly.

As a data point: Probably 90% of my messages are on iMessage. I have one friend group that has a telegram chat.

Almost nothing in WhatsApp or Signal.

> “surely a big pipe from here to So Cal, given the dire straits of the drought, has to be doable at this point”.

Water is very heavy. Which means moving it takes a lot of energy. Unless it’s flowing downhill, you have to provide that energy.

California is already using something like a fifth of its electricity for moving water around the state. Pumping water from Portland to San Diego would be immensely energy intensive.

New heat is generated by nuclear decay inside the earth. Eventually it will run out, but so will everything.

Back in the day, when VCRs were a thing, everybody used to joke about how no one new how to program theirs. Heck, half of them had the blinking clock forever cause people couldn’t figure out how to reset it.

After reading this book, I realized that maybe if one person can’t program their VCR, you could have argued that it’s their fault. But certainly if so many people have problems with it, it’s clearly an issue with the design.

> Martha Stewart went to jail for 5 months for a meager case of insider trading.

I believe she went to prison for lying to investigators. The insider trading they couldn’t make stick. So in the end, maybe the cases aren’t so different?

Full circle make it sounds like we’re doing it only once. :)

I like to think of it as a Pendulum! Back and forth it goes.

The title of the article does indeed use ‘direct’, but the article actually talks about non stop flights. The Sydney - London flight will take 20 hours.

> word games […] are very rarely games about words

> Scrabble is adversarial optimization

A friend of mine used to joke that Scrabble is an area control game with 40,000 rules for tile placement. Like many good jokes, there is a kernel of truth in there.

I think the reason a lot of people have heard about the one-click-patent is that it has served as the poster child for frivolous patents for the last 25 years.

So yes, your outrage is shared by most people. I stopped holding my breath for reforms though.

I’ve always heard it as “Three letter Agency”, when used in this context specifically.

The German ‘Kaiser’ as well.